Monday, January 28, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 9
SPORTS
Poor free throw shooting
gives Coogs headaches
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
and TRAVIS TINGLE
Sports Editors
Free throws are so named be
cause they supposedly provide a
team with a chance to score with
out being guarded. Thus, the ob
ject of a foul shot is to score
points— freely.
Maybe someone should tell
that to the Houston Cougars.
Missed free throws have plagued
the Coogs for years. To the Phi
Slama Jama boys, every trip to the
foul line is like trying to swallow a
gold fish — they’re hard to get
down without choking.
In the 71-()9 loss to Texas
A&M Sunday, the Cougars hit
only 9 of 19 f ree throws. Using a
calculator, that’s 47.4 percent
from the line — pathetic.
Houston is hitting only ()9.4
percent of their free throws in
SWC play this season — it shows.
The Cougars inability to shoot
foul shots has cost them plenty of
games, including their latest loss
to the Aggies.
Houston's poor performance
at the foul line was the difference
in Sunday's game, said Cougar
head coach Guy Lewis.
“Those free throws helped
them and hurl us, it's as simple as
that," Lewis said. “ That’s the way
it looked to me.
“A&M is a good ball team. I
thought we played real well, but
the missed free throws killed us.
When you’re on the road, you’ve
got to hit those f ree throws.”
Houston guard Alvin Franklin,
who had 31 points, was the most
consistent Cougar at the line, hit
ting five of six attempts. Franklin
agreed with Lewis’ assessment.
“We didn’t really hit our free
throws like we should have,”
Franklin said. “That hurt us a lot
clown the stretch.”
Franklin was able to penetrate
inside A&M defense. Time and
time again, Franklin kept the Ag
gies from taking complete charge
of the game with his perimeter
shooting.
“They started out playing man-
to-man," Franklin said. “I figured
if they came out in a man-to-man
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Photo by PETER ROCHA
Houston’s Reid Gettys (holding white towel) reflects the
somber mood of the Cougar bench during their loss to the
Aggies Sunday. “Those free throws helped them and hurt us,
it’s as simple as that, ” said Houston Coach Guy Lewis.
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Photo by PETER ROCHA
A&M guard Gary Lewis (10) and Houston forward Rickie
Winslow (41) scramble for the ball during the Aggies 71-69
win over the Coogs. A&M (13-5, 5-2) and Houston (13-5, 5-2)
are now tied with Texas Tech for second place in the SWC.
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
Phi Slama Jama turned into Phi
Jumpa Shotta before 6,098 in G.
Rolhe White Coliseum Sunday. The
“world’s tallest fraternity” took the
“world’s longest shots” as they be
came the Aggies' latest victim, 71-69.
With the victory, the Aggies, now
13-5 on the season, moved into a
three-way tie for second place in the
Southwest Conference with Texas
Tech and Houston at 5-2.
Missing from this year’s Houston
roster, however, are the names and
numbers of those faces familiar to
conference championships, NCAA
tournament bids and three consec
utive Final Four appearances.
Missing from tnis year’s playbook
are those plays that frequently used
to end with a dunk.
And missing from this year’s
standings are quite a few ‘Ws’ in the
win column the Cougars used to trfke
for granted.
About the only things still the
same for Houston are Coach Guy
Lewis’ red and white checkered
towel, center Greg Anderson’s black
and blue shaved scalp and junior
guard Alvin Franklin’s good as gold
jump shot.
And they never could shoot free
throws well.
“I’d have to say that was the big
difference in the game,” Lewis said
about his team making just nine of
19 free throws. “A&M is just a good
basketball team. We played well but
we just didn’t hit our free throws. I
knew it would be a very tough and
close ball game. We played well.”
But, unlike the games in recent
years, Houston didn’t intimidate the
Aggies with their inside game.
Anderson was held scoreless in
the Final 8:56 of the game and fin
ished with 17 points. Highly touted
Rickie Winslow scored only seven
points oh three-of-eight shooting
and no other inside player had more
than four points.
Phi Slama Jama was held dunkless
until the final second.
“I was just as pleased as I could be
with Jimmie Gilbert's defense in the
second half,” said Aggie Head Bas
ketball Coach Shelby Metcalf. “At
halftime he didn’t feel he had done a
good job on Anderson, but he really
shut him down toward the end
there. For awhile, (Anderson) and
Franklin looked like a two-man show
out there.
“Franklin never called it off. He’s
just a great player.”
Throughout most of the game,
Franklin was singlehandedly greater
than most entire teams.
“We couldn’t stop Franklin,” Met
calf said. “Whatever we did, we
couldn’t stop him. We just tried not
to let anyone else go wild against us.”
Franklin and Anderson were the
only Cougars who scored in double
figures.
The Aggies were led by a pair of
20-point outings from Kenny Brown
and Don Marbury. A1 Pulliam con
tributed 11 points and Winston Crite
added 10.
“At this point in the season, you
just have to work hard to keep them
a family, which a good basketball
team is,” Metcalf said.
Maybe even more than they are a
fraternity.
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